Senator Barbara Boxer is showing how far she will go in her endeavor to do something, anything in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, Boxer says she is filing legislation that would allow governors to activate up to 4,000 National Guard soldiers nationwide to provide security at schools. (audio after page break)

There's a wrinkle -- the soldiers wouldn't actually be assigned to schools in Boxer's plan. Instead, they'd fill in for local police working "desk jobs" who would then protect schools themselves.

No, I am not making this up.

Here's a clip of Boxer describing her creative scheme to Schultz (audio) --

BOXER: We have 300 million weapons out there in America, so no matter what we do, we're not going to get rid of those weapons. So we need to keep the schools safe and I'm working on bills to allow the schools in an affordable way to be able to protect the students by having more personnel who are trained personnel.

SCHULTZ: Well, we have heard from a number of different states actually that are bringing forth legislation on a state level that they would arm the teachers!

BOXER: Well that's ridiculous! Arming the teachers is ridiculous and you're saying it's happening in many states. This is not a teacher's job. And, you know, what's really very interesting is, as I introduce my bills, one of which would allow the National Guard to become available to the governors who requested them. This is the current status now for the drug interdiction program where governors ask the Secretary of Defense to provide National Guard, up to 4,000 of them, to help in drug interdiction. My bill would say, it's called SOS -- Save Our Students -- allow the Guard without any problems with Posse Comitatus because they would really be relieving some of the police officers who are at desk jobs and allow those police officers to just go in front of the schools. This would allow the schools to not have to put the burden on a teacher. Imagine! A teacher goes to school, as you've pointed out, and to college and gets degrees to teach, not to learn how to kill!

Yes, it's clearly unrealistic to expect teachers to learn any more than necessary, not with union contracts to honor, thank you very much. Beyond that, do we really want to trust them with the safety of our children?

Suffice it to say that if the "SOS" bill were in effect now, National Guard soldiers would be filing paperwork and making coffee at the Newtown police station while local police were assigned sentinel duty outside local schools.

Then when the next rampage takes place elsewhere, local police would again guard a school after children were slaughtered there. It would not be long before any police officer assigned this duty was tagged with an unfortunate nickname by embittered residents -- The Cop Who Got Here Too Late. One can easily envision police officers lining up for this assignment, or at least Boxer can envision it.

It doesn't take much in the way of imagination, except perhaps to the honorable Democrat from California, to see the majority of deployments along these lines coming in response to bogus threats phoned in by teenage scofflaws and various miscreants.

Just wondering -- would a declaration of war be necessary before doing this or only if a Republican is president?

Appearing last night on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, Boxer did not bring up her proposal, except to mention that she's working on legislation for "school safety."

I say activate the National Guard to see if they can find Boxer’s brain. It’s got to be laying around out there somewhere. Lanza is one of your’s Babs. Liberals like you created monsters like him. You and your ilk own it.

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posted on 12/20/2012 5:44:02 PM PST
by FlingWingFlyer
(U.S. elections have become nothing but another cheap ripoff of American Idol.)

4000 national guards, wow California has nearly 10,000 schools, so these guards would be spread pretty thin... I am ashamed of Boxer, sorry she is in the senate.. but that is california.. fruits and nuts

4000 national guards, wow California has nearly 10,000 schools, so these guards would be spread pretty thin... I am ashamed of Boxer, sorry she is in the senate.. but that is california.. fruits and nuts

“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

Boxer is definitely an idiot that would think MORE signs would work and also be the first to say “MOVE that Deer Crossing sign down the road 1/2 mile so the deer will quit crossing at that curve”.

People are continually insulting boxes of rocks by comparing dumbness to Pols and them.

Like the man said, you need a license to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Truck Driver, Beautician, Nail Cutter, Barber etc etc etc but ANY DUMB SOB can be a Pol, they don’t even have to serve an apprenticeship or get a background check.

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posted on 12/20/2012 6:15:14 PM PST
by xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")

Why don’t we just require every teacher who is a member of the military reserves or national guard to carry a sidearm or concealed firearm at all times during school hours. I suspect we would see very few of these incidents if it were common knowledge that there is likely to be armed teachers on every campus.

We don’t need to call out the national guard, but Boxer at least seems to recognize that you can’t stop bullets with words. You need bullets.

Boxer’s idea to call out the National guard is as stupid an idea as they come, but using current national guard members, military reserves and combat veterans who are teachers or administrators as an armed defense against these attacks would clearly bean effective deterrent.

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posted on 12/20/2012 6:47:38 PM PST
by P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)

Oh, and by the way Senator, I would expect you to know that the governors command, and can call up their states’ National Guard without any “allow” from Congress, and since they are then in the State role, are not subject to Posse Comitatus. That’s why NG is called up for civil disturbances, not the active component.

Lot of ignorance here and with the politicians about the National Guard {and it’s National Guard, never national guards - they’re not warehouse watchmen}.

The National Guard is already under control of the states and its governors. It does not need federal authorization to do something, even something as stupid as this proposal by dumb-as-dirt Boxer.

National Guardsmen do not hang around the armory like fireman at the firehouse waiting for the next call from some stupid politician. They have real full-time civilian jobs like you do and train for real missions, from Special Ops insertions and fighter air strikes in Afghanistan to evacuation and rescue in a local flood.

Somehow it’s in too many people’s minds, including here at FR, that the Guard {not “guards”} is sort of like a constabulary day labor force ready to do the job that other well paid bureacracies can’t or won’t do, like guard the border, do drug searches, or guard schoolhouses.

She admits something most flaming lefties will not admit, that you can `fight fire with fire,’ but she doesn’t want to admit that common citizens can be trusted with guns.
Soldiers have to do it.
OK Babs, guns with good guys behind them belong in school. Now we’re getting somewhere. We’re really not that bad.
Yet.

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